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Saturday, 15 August 2026
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Nvidia posts another record quarter, reveals $43 billion of holdings in startups
Nvidia announced another record revenue figure after market close on Wednesday, but forecasted that revenue growth would slow in the following quarter.
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Muskâs xAI is being sued over its data center generators. Now, itâs buying $2.8B more.
Elon Muks's xAI said it will buy $2.8 billion worth of natural gas turbines over the next three years, according to SpaceX's IPO filing.
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Anthropic will pay xAI $1.25B per month for compute
Elon Musk's xAI surprised the AI world when it made a deal to sell compute to Anthropic. Now we know how much it's worth.
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Sam Altman makes âmic dropâ offer to every Y Combinator startup
Altman offered to have OpenAI invest in every single startup in this Y Combinator class: tokens for equity.
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You donât need to be an AI startup to raise. Lucra has $20M to prove it.
Slapping âAIâ on your startupâs pitch deck is basically table stakes right now. When a founder raised $20 million from Cathie Woodâs ARK Invest for an eSports gamification loyalty startup without those two letters in the spotlight, it got us wonderin
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The SpaceX IPO filing has arrived
SpaceX has finally made the contents of its IPO filing public, weeks ahead of what is expected to be the largest IPO ever.
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Microsoftâs carbon-removal plans arenât dead after all
Microsoft is responsible for over 90% of the carbon-removal market, and reports suggested the company was pausing purchases entirely. This new deal should help assuage the fears of CDR startups.
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OpenAI claims it solved an 80-year-old math problem â for real this time
OpenAI claims its reasoning model disproved a geometry conjecture unsolved since 1946 â and this time, the mathematicians who exposed its last embarrassing claim are backing it up.
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NASA's Psyche spacecraft returns unfamiliar views of a familiar world
"As a bonus, it captured Mars images from a rare perspective."
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Masters of the Universe final trailer brings the '80s nostalgia
"You are he who will restore peace to Eternia."
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Leaving the V8 in the past: The all-electric Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door
The 0â60 time is impressive, the miles/kWh number even more so.
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Starship's Twelfth Flight Test
Article URL: https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-12 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48214558 Points: 29 # Comments: 17
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Google Declaring War on the Web
Article URL: https://tante.cc/2026/05/20/on-google-declaring-war-on-the-web/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48214449 Points: 86 # Comments: 20
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GitHub's take on age assurance for developers
Article URL: https://github.blog/news-insights/policy-news-and-insights/why-age-assurance-laws-matter-for-developers/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48214215 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
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PopuLoRA: Co-Evolving LLM Populations for Reasoning Self- Play
Article URL: https://vmax.ai/team/populora-co-evolving-llm-populations-for-reasoning-self-play Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48214188 Points: 19 # Comments: 2